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Continuum is an insanely addictive sci-fi action series from Canada. Like Lost Girl, the series is edgier than your typical American show. It puts a bizarre spin on its use of time travel. In the year 2077, big business has taken over and instituted a police state. There is no longer such a thing as privacy or free thought. Laws are enforced by Protectors of the City Protective Services (CPS). Meanwhile, the questionably titled terrorist group, Liber8, is trying to undermine the stronghold of big business.
Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) is a committed policewoman and military veteran. She gets pulled through time and space when Liber8 uses a time travel device to go to the year 2012. Armed with knowledge of the future and its unique gifts, the only one able to stop them is Kiera, equipped with a cybernetic suit and Swiss-army gun. All the while, she struggles with having left her family in the past (or future).
The first two seasons are available on Netflix. However, if you want to jump right into Season 3 we’ve got everything you need to know be caught up on the series. (Obviously, this breakdown includes major spoilers).
Season 1
Kiera is shocked to find herself in the year 2012. Her suit and brain implant, CMR, get its wires crossed with a teenage boy’s computer. That boy, Alec Sadler (Erik Knudsen), will be the father of an entire age of technology. With Alec’s hacking at her disposal, Kiera uses her knowledge of Liber8 to help the police. Her cover is the bizarre premise of made up secret part of the government. She partners with Vancouver police detective Carlos Fonnegra (Victor Webster).
Under the leadership of Edouard Kagame (Tony Amendola), Liber8 tries to change the future by murdering people and destroying businesses in 2012. Meanwhile, reluctant Liber8 member Matthew Kellog (Stephen Lobo) goes solo and uses his knowledge of the future to succeed financially. Kagame sacrifices himself to ensure that his plans to change the future come to fruition.
The season culminates in an epic terrorist act. Kiera suddenly remembers a terrorist attack that occurred in her original timeline's version of 2012: the major explosion costs Kagame his life. Alec unlocks a secret message in Kiera’s memory. Alec, in the future, is instrumental in sending Kiera and Liber8 into the past. Meanwhile, Alec’s step-brother is the father of the Liber8 movement and Alec loses his step-father in a major confrontation. Finally, in a complete WTF shocker, Kiera sleeps with Kellog. The question arises: was Kiera always meant to visit the past? Is she ensuring the future with her family will exist or is she changing it with every act she does?
Season 2
The second season finds a couple of changes. Kiera’s suit is no longer bronze but a darker black (to match her new attitude). She’s committed to getting home by any means necessary. Kellog is using his finances to influence Alec by building him a lab. Kiera also learns that a few other people from the future came back through time, including her partner from 2077. But they arrived at different times. Her partner dies of old age, leaving behind an extra super suit. The other future survivor is Jason (Ian Tracey).
Liber8 is having some internal battles. Sonya Valentine (Lexa Doig) was appointed by Kagame but Travis Verta (Roger Cross) has the most leader potential. They jockey for control over Alec’s step-brother Theseus. They also try and get Jim Martin (Tahmoh Penikett) elected into government.
Meanwhile, a third group of time travelers, Freelancers, are slowly cropping up. They blow Kiera’s cover with the police department. There also is the mysterious figure known as Escher (Hugh Dillon) who tries to enlist Kiera’s help. It turns out he’s Alec’s father, Alec’s girlfriend is a spy, and Jason is Alec’s son from the future. The season ends with Kiera offered a chance to go back home using Escher’s resources and the time travel device. However, Alec’s girlfriend is killed so he uses the device to go back in time. Trapped in the present Kiera is apprehended by the Freelancers and imprisoned to no longer make any changes to the timeline.
How will Kiera get out of the hands of Freelancers? Is Alec the evil mastermind capable of ruining Kiera’s life or is he a victim of all this time traveling? Find out when Season 3 begins on Syfy.
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"In the marmalade forest/ Between the make-believe trees/ In a cottage cheese cottage/ Lives"... Bret McKenzie. The comedic songbird — who is known for making up half of the music-comedy duo Flight of the Conchords — is in the works with Fox to create an animated comedy, according to TVGuide.
The untitled show is set to follow the going-ons of a group of employees at an "almost-obsolete" NASA space center in Boulder, Colorado. Mckenzie will executive produce the show alongside King of the Hill scribes Tony Gama-Lobo and Rebecca May. As of yet, there's no confirmation that McKenzie will lend his voice to the show, but we're hoping that his unmistakable accent will make an appearance or two.
McKenzie is currently overseeing the music for Muppets Most Wanted.
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British actress Denise Welch married her toyboy lover Lincoln Townley in Portugal on Saturday (13Jul13). Welch, who is also a panellist on U.K. daytime chat show Loose Women, exchanged vows with Townley at the Vale do Lobo resort in the Algarve in front of friends and family.
The actress invited a number of her famous pals, including actresses Jill Halfpenny and Shobna Gulati and actor Marc Warren, to the ceremony.
Welch was previously married to actor Tim Healy.

S4E14: Each season finale of Sons of Anarchy has served as kind of a pseudo pilot, showcasing where at least one storyline will go into the next season, while closing the book on several others. There were a few storylines I’d hoped the season finale would tackle:
• Incarcerated Otto has turned on the club, giving testimony to DA Potter in exchange for more lenient treatment of fellow lifer, Lenny Janowitz; as well as getting his own execution date moved up. Thanks to his testimony, Bobby “Elvis” Munson is locked up.
• Juice was forced to turn on his club, thanks in part to Potter and Charming Sheriff Roosevelt and has given information on the big meeting that is to take place between the Sons, the Gallindo cartel and the IRA Irish King. In return, Potter has promised that he will only nab the club members present at the meeting.
• Letters from John Teller to his mistress in Ireland, Maureen Asbhy, have been the MacGuffin for the season. The letters, detailing how John predicted Clay would kill him (and he eventually did) have driven Clay off the deep end. First he killed Piney, who had threatened to tell the club about the letters. Secondly, he beat the holy hell out of his own wife Gemma, who tried to stop Clay from going after Tara, who was still in possession of the letters until last week; when she gave them to Gemma, who gave them to Jax.
• Opie eventually learns what happened to his father and guns Clay down, putting him in the hospital. Jax is the only club member who knows what really happened. They cover for Opie by blaming the shooting on “black,” which Tig takes to mean the One-Niner street gang and their leader LeRoy, who Tig went after.
• Jax and Tara still plan to leave Charming in their rear view, however Jax intends to kill Clay first and Tara has given him blood thinner to shoot into Clay’s IV to kill him and make it look like an accident. Clay is not their only obstacle. Gemma sure as hell doesn’t want her son and grandchildren to leave. Jax’s first wife and Abel’s biological mother, Wendy probably doesn’t want that to happen either.
So, we find a meeting set to go awry, a murder that needs to happen, treachery of guilt-ridden and traitorous intent, a brewing street war with the One-Niners, and a possible custody battle and escape from Charming. There’s a lot of ground to cover and a whole lot of bad road left to traverse in the season finale of the best Sons’ season yet. Poor Jax has a lot on his plate; heavy is the head that wears the crown I suppose.
“Ladies and gentlemen, we are cleared to execute all warrants.” – Potter
The jam-packed hour begins with an impassioned speech from Lincoln Potter to his team, which includes a disgruntled Sheriff Roosevelt. While they are surveying the club; Romero Parada and Luis Torres arrive on the scene to reveal a big monkey wrench in Potter’s plan: the Gallindo cartel is working with the CIA to overthrow the Lobo cartel. Parada informs Potter that the deal between the Sons and the Irish needs to go down. Less than five minutes in and there’s already a huge wrinkle in our finale. While Roosevelt can understand letting the club go for the greater good, it’s the smaller good Eli’s worried about. Potter, flummoxed that the bad guys won today gives Roosevelt Juice’s file and lets him know that his past has been stricken from the record and he can be released. Sheriff Eli says to Potter what many a Sons fan has thought all season, he is “one odd dude.” Roosevelt, wanting to get back to being a good guy instead of operating in shades of gray gives Juice the file.
As for Potter, he still needs a win for the good guys and storms into the Charming Heights board meeting with an Asian boy sex-toy and many other erotica toys. As it turns out, the Tokyo Fund, the main party responsible for funding Jacob Hale’s grand project, makes its money from all kinds of twisted erotic exploits. The people of Charming sure don’t want the picturesque Charming Heights built on sleazy porn money.
“You better make sure Clay gets well; otherwise we out RICO back on the table.” – Romero
The Irish kings arrive at the warehouse and Jax tells them the bad news about Clay’s shooting and then gets down to business; introducing Galen and the Irish to Romero and the cartel. Unfortunately, Galen, the head of the Irish Kings specifically demanded Clay be at the meet. A distraught Jax definitely gets downright nauseous when Romero and Luis reveal their CIA status to Jax and inform him that the deal with the Irish needs to go down. Jax tries to explain that whoever takes over for Clay might want to vote the deal with the Cartel down, but Romero tells the V.P. that he’ll ascend to the presidency to keep the deal going. Romero and Luis also explain to Jax that no harm would have come to Tara if they actually got her and that she would have been debriefed and kept in custody. Jax is screwed into leaving the man responsible for killing his father alive at least long enough to make the deal.
“You may as well kill me.” – Clay
Jax does some soul searching by sitting at his father’s graveside. How convenient, the rings he placed atop his father’s headstone last season were still there. He takes them off and apologizes to his dad. He then heads to the hospital to have his non–Inigo Montoya moment. Jax begins to close the door and the blinds to get the blood thinner ready, but Clay wakes up. Jax decides to take out his knife instead. Calmly and collectively, Jax informs Clay that he read the letters and he knows everything. “The only reason I’m not slicing you open right now, is because I need this deal to happen.” Jax lays down the law on all fronts; Clay is to step down as president, he’ll still get a vote and he’ll stick around to make the Irish happy, but if he gets in Jax’s way or goes near Tara, Gemma, or his sons, Jax will show the letters to the club and let Opie tell everyone that Clay killed Piney. Unfortunately, the bastard gets to live, but seeing Jax kind of revel in the fact that Clay will live as a broken man instead of dying was fun to see, especially as Jax cut the president rocker off Clay’s vest.
Jax and Opie meet up and Jax briefly explains that he’s staying and taking the gavel, Clay is stepping down, and Jax wants Opie to be his V.P. A confused Opie wants to know what changed in the span of a day. Jax just invites him the club meeting.
“Walking away from my club is one thing, but letting it die…I can’t” – Jax
Jax goes home to Tara and clues her in on the CIA-Cartel partnership because he doesn’t want to keep any more secrets. Without having to say another word, an ever-knowing Tara knows that Jax has to stay behind. A tearful and weary Jax apologizes for letting her down and he asks her to take the boys and get out of Charming.
“There is a house in Charmingtown…”
An excellent re-imaging of the Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun” by Battleme and the Forest Rangers accompanied by Katey Sagal plays as Bobby twangs on his guitar in lock-up, Juice rips up his file, and Gemma burns up papers that implicate her and Unser in John’s death. Jax walks into the clubhouse and gazes out at his club and the seat that is rightfully his to sit in.
Tig walks into the chapel to sit in his Sergeant-in-Arms spot, but Jax stops him and asks that Chibs take that role, which he accepts and Tig is okay with. One by one, the Sons board members enter; Happy and Juice join, with Bobby in jail and Clay in a hospital bed. Unfortunately with the meeting set to start at 8:00 p.m., it gets to be 8:03 and Opie is still a no-show. Jax bangs the gavel to start the meeting, Tara comes in to let Jax know that she’s staying and the new president has his Godfather moment, only with his mom, not his old lady, on the outside looking in.
Whew, what a season. With all signs pointing to someone, anyone killing Clay off all series long, we’re left still waiting for that day, but watching a broken man operate will only aid the drama for next season. It was certainly a subdued season finale, with no deaths or violence, but a whole lot of shaping things to come. The new season gets clearer: Jax is at the gavel, Clay will be looking for ways to maintain or regain his power, and deal between the cartel and the Irish still needs to happen. While not that exciting, the season finale was certainly eventful and a decent capper to what has been the best season of Sons to date, here’s hoping we keep seeing great TV come out of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Redwood Original.

S4E12: While stating SPOILER ALERT might sound redundant if you’re reading a recap of a show, please, pretty PLEASE do not ruin your enjoyment of last night’s Sons of Anarchy by reading my recap before you watch the show. That being said on to the recap of the most shocking episode in the show’s history, and one of the most shocking hours of television this year period.
Gemma knows Clay killed Piney and plans to do the same to Tara. Unser knows Clay killed Piney, plans to kill Tara, and went all Mohammed Ali on Gemma’s face. Clay knows that Unser knows and both men have threatened to off the other if they get in each other’s way. After seeing Gemma’s face, Tig hands over his Sergeant-in-Arms rocker to Clay. Tara and Gemma know that Wendy, Abel’s mother, is back in Charming. Only Gemma knows that she wants to see her son. Opie has been told that Clay killed Piney and bashed Gemma’s face in. Juice and Sheriff Roosevelt both have realized that DA Potter is screwing with them both over. Potter has gotten Otto to agree to testify in exchange for moving his execution up. Bobby can now officially tell Otto that Jackie, the man responsible for Otto’s wife Lou-Anne’s murder is dead. Jax wants vengeance for his mother and he and the rest of club still believe that it was the rival Lobo drug cartel that attacked Tara.
The board is set, the pieces are moving. Kurt Sutter and company have crafted a thrilling season thus far; it’s time to start the ride home. Sons of Anarchy is at its best towards the end of each season, when everything is escalating straight down to hell, which makes it all too fitting that this week’s episode is entitled, Burnt and Purged Away.
“You’re going to die at the gavel.” – Opie
At Unser’s behest, Opie goes to see Gemma and realizes that Unser was right – Clay killed Piney. Gemma thought she was able to convince Opie that the fight between her and Clay was over their own personal problems and nothing else, but she knew she was wrong once Jax met up with her at the hospital and he informed her that Opie was up at the cabin. She tries to send one of the prospects to find him, but Jax comes out of Tara’s room a few seconds later and wants him to find Wendy; more on Jax’s ex-wife later. Gemma goes up to the cabin to see Unser, who is having Piney’s body sent to the crematorium. Gemma demands that Unser finds Opie to talk him out of killing Clay. After Clay meets with Tara in the hospital, Gemma lets him know that Opie is gunning for him.
Unser catches up with Opie at the crematorium and tries to talk to him, but Opie is not in the mood to talk as he watches his father burn. Jax comes by shortly after and is dumbfounded by Piney’s death as well. Jax asks him what happened, but Opie plays dumb. Jax presses him, but Opie responds with a gun to his friend’s face. It looks like the broken-hearted biker is going to satiate his thirst for vengeance all by his lonesome. Refusing to bring this to the club and let them all know what Clay did, he shoots out Jax’s bike tires and rides off. Jax takes off after Opie in a hearse from the crematorium and then after crashing it, a motorcycle from a guy stuck at a red light. Opie arrives at the clubhouse and forces Clay at gunpoint to sit down so he can shoot him.
Jax arrives in time to stop Opie, threatening to kill him. But Opie doesn’t heed the warning and exacts his revenge, settling the scores for both Donna, the wife that Clay had killed, and for Piney. He blew a hole through his chest in what is definitely the most shocking moment in Sons’ history. Even though you knew it was coming, it was still the jaw-dropping moment of the entire Fall season, of any show.
“Unfortunate events such as yours are reasons this cartel deal worries us.”
The club meets up with their partners in the IRA and the IRA is worried about the Sons’ dealings with the Gallindo cartel. The IRA are none too pleased about the Sons using their guns to bail out the IRA, but Clay convinces them that it was the only call to make. The IRA seems to be ok with Clay’s explanation, although they still don’t like the Sons being “in bed with those dirty wetbacks.” Juice is present at this meet and subsequently texts the information to Potter about the impending meeting place between the cartel and the IRA. Bobby, Chibs, and Tig are hopeful that once this deal is over, the club’s dealings with the cartel will be “in their rear view.” Potter informs Roosevelt that the RICO takedown is happening and he needs a little extra help from local law enforcement. Sheriff Eli says he’ll be there. Jax, Tig, Chibs, and Happy meet up with the IRA and discover an unofficial orphanage, which does not sit well with the boys, who get into fisticuffs with the guys running this place. Jax has seen this baby factory before, because he almost lost Abel to one of them in Belfast last season. While the Gallindo plotline has been the driving force of this whole season, it definitely felt completely out of place in an episode of this nature, but this plotline certainly couldn’t stand still on our way to next week’s season finale, part one.
“I can take care of his heart.” – Tara
Gemma goes to see Tara, which is the first time Tara has seen her since the beat-down. Gemma tries to convince Tara to not tell Jax about Wendy, but she does because there are no secrets between the pair. Jax heads off to see Wendy and warns her to stay away. Wendy threatens to sue for custody if she won’t be able to see her son. With the couple still planning to leave Charming, Clay meets with Tara at the hospital and offers her a deal. If she gives him the letters, then he’ll make sure no one gets in the way of her and Jax leaving Charming. While packing to leave the hospital, Tara tells Gemma about what Clay wanted. Jax comes by and levels it all out to Gemma, no matter what she or Wendy or anyone else wants, he’s leaving Charming with Tara and the boys. Whenever he talks about leaving Charming, I’m reminded of a Patton Oswalt stand up bit from his book, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, about how if you don’t get out of your neighborhood by a certain age, you never will. Jax has passed that age and I doubt he’s ever going to leave Charming.
Jax tells Bobby about whats going to happen with the club once the deal between the cartel and the IRA take place. They’re going to tell the cartel that they’re still going to runs guns for them but are done dealing blow; which they’ll blame on the IRA. With the club about to make more in two runs than they’d make in two years, Jax tells Bobby and Clay that he was wrong and believes Opie is not ready to lead. Therefore, the gavel will go to Bobby, with Chibs as his V.P. and if Tig doesn’t want it, Happy as the new Sergeant-In-Arms. It was a short, throwaway scene but obviously would have implications for the entire series. The more important short scene with implications for the future came later was when Bobby went to see Otto. Otto made Bobby read a list of the transgressions that Otto had done for the club while in prison. Otto only asked for one thing in return: for the club to look out for his wife, Lou-Anne, which they did not do. Bobby is at a loss for words other than “rat” and various other curses as the cops come in to cart him away. I don’t think he’ll be leading the club anytime soon.
They’ve teased the end of this episode happening one way or the other since the show’s inception, but watching Opie gun Clay down was absolutely shocking. With the club in turmoil, Jax has no choice but to take the gavel and dash his own chances for getting out of Charming; unless what he has constantly said this year is true, that he loves his family more than his club. Jax is now in the position to prove that statement once and for all. But first, heavy is the head that wears the crown and Jax has a lot on his plate; personally and professionally, coming from all sides and angles. Tara, leaving Charming, the meeting, Wendy’s return, not mention what he doesn’t know about Juice and Otto ratting out the club, and Bobby in prison. Oh, and then there’s that bit about covering up Clay’s murder. While it certainly seems as if this show is heading towards the series finale, we’re only riding headfirst into the season finale. Next week starts a two-hour trek through a lot of bad road and it’s sure to be fantastic.

S4E8: Just in time for Halloween, Ren and Stimpy’s Bloody Head Fairy comes to Charming, California along with South Park Tenorman-flavored chili. Odd pop culture references aside, this week’s Sons of Anarchy featured the usual ultra-violent shock and awe that the series is known for as the seeds of all out war between clubs, cartels, and Charming heats up.
“Eventually we’ll be less desperate, make smarter choices.” – Jax
Poor guy can’t even kill himself right. This week’s show picks up right where last week’s ended: with Juice trying to off himself. Luckily (or unluckily, if you’re Juice), the branch of the tree he hung himself from snapped, leaving him and his guilt alive for another day. Chibs and Tig arrive at the warehouse to bring Juice back to the clubhouse for the big vote.
Jax and Opie discuss the impending vote for new leadership. While Opie believes Bobby is a better choice for the long term, Jax is still siding with Clay, convinced that while their deal with the Gallindo cartel is dirty, the money from it can make the club whole. Clay and Tig both vote nay on the deal but the vote is forced off the table for the time being when Lobo cartel members do a drive-by and shoot up Teller–Morrow. The Sons are able to grab one of the shooters as they try to escape. Even worse news for the Sons: they’re carrying a bag of severed heads, one of them being the president of SAMTAZ, Armando. Thanks to Happy busting up the Lobos member from the drive-by, and some Sodium Pentothal (courtesy of Luis Torres), Romero’s right hand man, The Sons and the Mayans learn that one of the Mayans has been leaking information about both clubs to the Lobo cartel. Jax formulates a plan: leave the Mayan rat alive, leak some false information in order to draw the Lobo cartel out and have Torres and his men take them out. Unfortunately for the club, Torres needs the Sons to be an infantry unit in case things go south. Bobby can’t believe it, but agrees with Clay that they need to be united on this or else they’ll wind up dead. Luckily the infantry is safe and sound because even though Pedro was never out of Alvarez’s sight, the Lobos must have known something was going down because they drive a truck to the warehouse with the bodies of the severed heads.
“Why do I believe him when he say’s it’ll get better?” – Tara
Since the early days of the show, Gemma and Tara have had all kinds of discussions about family and what their roles are as old ladies, with Gemma always convincing Tara to stand by her man and their family. Tara’s faith in Jax’s ability to keep his family safe is gone and Tara tells Jax that she’s leaving with the kids. Jax agrees, knowing that club is in over its head. It’s good to see Jax is being smart here and not only is he not fighting Tara about getting out of Charming, he agrees and supports the decision.
“Charming needs a hero, Elliot.” – Clay
Despite the madness going on the drug war, the city of Charming has its own problems, and Roosevelt’s wife has orchestrated a fundraiser to preserve Charming Central Gardens instead of Mayor Hale’s vision for Charming Heights. Clay and the Sons are on board with stopping Hale, because a bigger city is bad for business. Clay makes an impassioned speech and gives 75K to the cause, he also presents a check for the same amount from Elliot Oswald; the man who he believes should be the mayor of Charming. I’m sure Sheriff Roosevelt is none too pleased with the illegal half of the donation to his wife.
“That bag of your heads is a get out of drugs free card.” – Piney
Jax heads up to the cabin to speak with Piney about his conflict with Clay. Piney tells Jax about how for ten years he gave up the club and the ideals of John Teller until Jax came in. No matter how much damage John did to his immediate family, the club can still be saved. But the prince of the club disagrees whole-heartedly, stating that the idea that he can change anything is arrogant and that what he’s doing now is for his family. Piney still can’t believe how much like his father Jax is and asks of the vice president to remind himself of the great man JT was before he forgets. The old, cranky club member has always tried to steer Jax toward the path John wanted, or at the very least away from the path that Clay has led the club on. I’m not sure how much more biker Yoda can do except reveal the unread batch of letters from John to Maureen and the fact the Clay killed JT – which he is still threatening Clay with on the condition that he pulls the club out of the drug game.
Clay also stops by Piney’s cabin. Piney is smart and makes the pres give up his weapons before entering. Still thinking he has Clay dead to rights thanks to the letters, Piney maintains his position and demands that Clay cut ties with the cartel to which Clay calmly agrees and walks away, only to quickly return, smashing the door into Piney and then scouring the cabin for the letters which Piney declared weren’t there. Clay realizes that Tara still has them. Piney tries to play dumb and begs Clay to leave the doc out of this. “Too late,” would be the last words Piney would ever hear as Clay shoots him point-blank with a shotgun in one of the series’ most shocking deaths ever.
We all knew someone as old as Piney just wasn’t fit for this world, but Clay offing him really does showcase that any given week, any character can join the big biker club in the sky. Sons’ dark humor also popped up this week in the form of severed head flavored chili. Just like many a great week for the Sons, some of the last week’s biggest storylines got put on the back burner, but occasionally crept up, like Juice’s issues which weren’t mentioned at all, however Theo Rossi’s acting conveyed the growing guilt and nervousness in Juice’s head. Chibs did find his MC brethren cleaning up the chain that he tried to use to hang himself and the Irish MC member took the suicide attempt as Juice feeling guilty over having to kill people. It’s only a matter of time before Juice tells everything to Chibs, which will in turn give him a hard decision to make; keep his friend’s secret or off him with a good ol’ Glasgow Smile and a knife to the chest to match?

It's safe to assume that when Quentin Tarantino was a kid, he probably watched a good deal of television—specifically, particularly stylized (and violent) television. And while he was growing up on Hawaii Five-O, The Incredible Hulk, The Streets of San Francisco, Police Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, CHiPs, The Blue Knight, The Rockford Files, Logan's Run, The Dukes of Hazzard and Sheriff Lobo, he might have, if even subsconsciously, formed a staunch affection for one common thread: Gerald McRaney. Thus, McRaney has been cast in Tarantino's latest profundity, Django Unchained.
McRaney, most familiar for his own detective series Simon &amp; Simon, early '90s family sitcom Major Dad, and, most recently, a stint on Deadwood, is clearly well-versed in television acting (especially in law enforcement series). Although he is not particularly known for film, Tarantino has a habit of imploding all our preconceived notions. As it was pointed out to me once, who expected John Travolta to be legendary in Pulp Fiction?
Also in Django Unchained "news," Samuel L. Jackson is officially onboard now. Of course, no one was really worried that he'd drop out at the last minute. But it's nice to have it all on paper.
So, with Jamie Foxx as a vigilante former slave, Christoph Waltz as his bounty hunting partner, Leonardo DiCaprio as a vicious plantation owner, Kevin Costner as DiCaprio's equally vindictive "slave trainer," and Samuel L. Jackson as DiCaprio's right-hand man, McRaney is joining a mind-blower of a cast.
Just thinking about how good this movie is going to be gives me the shakes.
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In the ice-cream sundae of production woes that faced Seth Rogen's Green Hornet, which included last minute cast and director dropouts and on-set car accidents, the film now has its cherry on top. IESB reports that Columbia Pictures and its parent Sony are not pleased with the way the movie is turning out.
File this under rumor for now, but sources claim that the studio considers the film "a disaster" for reasons ranging from the overly campy tone of the product (currently in post-production) courtesy of avant-garde director Michel Gondry to Rogen's undeniably un-heroic look. The irony of this whole mess is that we, the fans, have wondered why the director and star were hired in the first place for quite some time now. Neither radiate blockbuster material and we were never sold on Rogen as the debonair do-gooder. Maybe "we" should be making these films instead...Still, it's release is many months away and Sony has time employ an army of editors to reshape the film as they see fit. Whether or not it will make a difference remains to be seen.
The Green Hornet is set to hit theaters on December 22nd, against winter tentpole releases like Tron: Legacy and Little Fockers (bad news for Rogen and company). We'll keep you up to date on the films news - both good and bad - as it comes in.

The Brit was set to start work on the live-action adaptation of the DC Comics bounty hunter saga after the super-sleuth picture had wrapped last year (09).
But following the success of the detective movie, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, Ritchie has bowed out of Lobo to focus on a second Sherlock Holmes, according to producer Joel Silver.
He tells the Los Angeles Times, "I don't think he's going to do it (Lobo) now. The studio wants us and Guy to focus on making another Sherlock Holmes. So I think we're going to be doing that. But we're seeing what happens with this. Everybody is analyzing everything. It's all kind of happening right now as we talk.
"Sherlock is sitting at just about $400 million in worldwide gross and showing itself to be pretty effective and pretty strong. So we're trying to see if we can do something quickly with another Sherlock Holmes movie. We have some ideas and some good story points.
"Downey loves the experience of playing Sherlock and would love to play him again, and I'd love to see him play it again. Jude and all of them will be back and it will be great."

Sherlock Holmes director Guy Ritchie has set aside the planned Lobo in order to clear his schedule for a fast-tracked Holmes sequel, according to producer Joel Silver.
Ritchie has his biggest commercial success with Holmes, and Warner Bros. wants to parlay that into a franchise as quickly as possible, Silver told The Los Angeles Times' Hero Complex blog yesterday. Silver is a producer of Holmes as well as Lobo, which would adapt the ultra-violent antihero from the pages of DC Comics.
"I don't think he's going to do it now," Silver told the LAT of Ritchie directing Lobo. "The studio wants us and Guy to focus on making another Sherlock Holmes. So I think we're going to be doing that. But we're seeing what happens with this. Everybody is analyzing everything. It's all kind of happening right now as we talk. Sherlock is sitting at just about $400 million in worldwide gross and showing itself to be pretty effective and pretty strong. So we're trying to see if we can do something quickly with another Sherlock Holmes movie. We have some ideas and some good story points."
Lobo in turn could go with a different director, Silver said. "It's all happening at once now. Everybody is talking about everything…It's an ongoing conversation. Downey loves the experience of playing Sherlock and would love to play him again, and I'd love to see him play it again. Jude and all of them will be back and it will be great."
And what about that rumor that Brad Pitt would be in the Holmes sequel as Professor Moriarty? Silver was less than optimistic, telling the LAT: "Well, I mean, we talked about that at one point, but you know as of right now we're not sure what we're going to do. We'll see what happens."
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Synopsis

A spinoff from "The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo." When the governor of Atlanta discovers that Orly County, Georgia, is virtually crime-free due to what he believes is the honest work of the larcenous Sheriff Elroy P. Lobo, he hires Lobo and his deputies to help curb the rising crime rate. The series follows the adventures of Sheriff Lobo as he and his deputies, Perkins and Birdie, attempt to do for Atlanta what they did in Orly.